Damaged Life: The Crisis of the Modern Psyche

ISBN-13: 9781138669581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 172 str.

Tod Sloan

Opis

Damaged Life, originally published in 1996, presents a powerful and progressive analysis of modernity’s impact on the psyche. Tod Sloan develops an integrated theory of the self in society by combining perspectives on personality development and socio-historical processes to explore our complex response to modernization.

Spis treści

Preface.  Acknowledgements.  1. Damage Goods: The Modern Problematic  2. The Psychological Impact of Modernization  3. The Colonization of the Lifeworld  4. The Formation of the Psyche  5. The Domination of Desire  6. Ideological Formations and their Transcendence  7. The Destruction of Meaning  8. Decolonization.  References.  Index.

O autorze

Tod Sloan is associate professor of psychology at the University of Tlilsa, in Oklahoma, and is a leading contributor to the field of personality psychology. His previous publications include Deciding: Self-deception in Life Choices, London: Methuen.